Diagnosed with AIDS and wary of the standard drugs being offered, Woodroof begins to import unapproved drugs from abroad into the USA. He then distributes them via his “Dallas Buyers Club”. Along the way he makes friends with a doctor (Jennifer Garner) and a Marc Bolan-loving transvestite (Jared Leto), while beginning to re-think some of his prejudices about sexuality.
It’s a gritty and unsentimental portrait that gives you an insight into how misunderstood AIDS was in the 1980s. McConaughey is highly convincing in what must have been an especially challenging role given that he’s horribly ill for most of the film.
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